i just upgraded my Ubuntu to 12.10 and i noticed that i get this message The location is not a folder whenever i try to access a mounted media (USB or even my other partitions). I am now unable to view content on my usb pendrive or other partitions.

already tried sudo apt-get remove exo-utils with no luck because it says it is not installed.

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What is the file-type?Did you upgrade or clean-install 11.10? This can happen when behavior for opening/copying a file or media is outdated / incorrect. Somewhere there is a path that is no longer correct. Possibly in Nautilus configuration.
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david6Oct 20 '12 at 23:47

I had a clean install on ubuntu 12.04. I now upgraded from it to 12.10
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psychok7Oct 20 '12 at 23:50

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Are you trying to access the device through command line or script that worked with 12.04 and previous versions? They've changed the default mount point for USB devices so you might have to change the way you are doing things slightly to take it into account.

Previously USB devices were accessed at

/media/volume

or

/media/UUID

From now on it looks like these devices will need to be accessed at

/media/username/volume

or

/media/username/UUID

Yep, it's a pain, but I found that inserting $LOGNAME in my scripts seems to be taking care of it quickly and neatly. For example instead of:

I am trying to acess it through nautilus/unity, not the terminal.. should i still do this?
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psychok7Oct 20 '12 at 23:53

No, it should already know where the mount point is. It seems like something is broken. You could plug your USB device in and have a look at the directory /media/username (your username) and see if it is mounting correctly though. If it's there, I don't see why nautilus should be having a problem.
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fabricator4Oct 21 '12 at 0:11

i got it working with SUDO... how can i change to make this the default behaviour?
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psychok7Oct 21 '12 at 0:24

It seems like a permissions problem. Do you only have one user?
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fabricator4Oct 21 '12 at 1:15